Execute method annotated with @Step outside the Allure test context

[greenenvy17]

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering is it possible to execute an existing method annotated with @step outside the Allure test context in Java.

The use case i have is that i want to execute some methods as part of @BeforeAll to setup some data as Precondition because i do not want these steps to be in the Allure report. If i execute the method in @BeforeAll, i get: AllureLifecycle - Could not start step: no test case running.

I know that i can separate the logic in a different method called by the one annotated with @step and calling each when it's needed, but i'm just wondering if there is an easy way to solve this without rewriting a lot of step classes.

Thanks!